International Journal of Managing Projects in Business: Volume 12 Issue 2

World views on projects and society

Mattias Jacobsson, Rolf A. Lundin

The future of the management of projects in the 2030s

Derek Walker, Beverley Lloyd-Walker

The purpose of this paper is to explore recent literature on the impact of changes in the workplace environment and projected trends through to the year 2030. This allows the…

Project work, a challenge to traditional work life institutions

Eskil Ekstedt

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate and problematize how the expansion of project and temporary work challenges the traditional industrial work organization and its…

A pragmatic sociological examination of projectification

Régis Barondeau, Brian Hobbs

Boltanski and Thevenot’s Economies of Worth framework and the project world introduced by Boltanski and Chiapello are well known in the fields of sociology and organization…

Projectification of a global organization – case study of the Roman Catholic Church

Beata Jałocha, Anna Góral, Ewa Bogacz-Wojtanowska

The purpose of this paper is to understand projectification processes of the global organization, based on the example of the Catholic Church’s activities. The Catholic Church is…

The birth of an ICT project alliance

Teemu Mikael Lappi, Kirsi Aaltonen, Jaakko Kujala

ICT projects, especially in the public sector, can have a substantial impact on society but are challenging due to organizational and technological complexities and uncertainties…

Projectification of sustainable development: implications from a critical review

Annette Cerne, Johan Jansson

In this paper, the authors challenge traditional views of project management and sustainable development as purportedly complementing each other. Rather, the authors apply a…

Megaprojects – symbolic and sublime: an ontological review

Thant Syn, Arkalgud Ramaprasad

Megaprojects are symbolic milestones of human history. Most megaprojects are one-of-a-kind endeavors to which traditional project management principles are neither applicable nor…

Cultivating sustainable communities of practice within hierarchical bureaucracies: The crucial role of an executive sponsorship

Meri Duryan, Hedley Smyth

The purpose of this paper is to address hierarchies in a large program of projects. It explores cultivation of communities of practice (CoP) within a hierarchical client…

Linking the Critical Chain Project Management literature

Octaviano Rojas Luiz, Fernando Bernardi de Souza, João Victor Rojas Luiz, Daniel Jugend

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the state of the art in Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM), outlining the CCPM literature to date, in an effort to guide future…

Complexity and rationality: a material-systemic approach

Lars Andersen

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to solving the complexity problem as increased complexity is a main reason why projects fail to reach their goals, and it is unclear…

Public funding, perverse incentives, and counterproductive outcomes

Gro Holst Volden

The purpose of this paper is to explore the adverse incentives at the front end of government-funded projects with concentrated benefits and no liabilities for the privileged…

Levels and interconnections of project success in development projects by Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)

Yogarajah Nanthagopan, Nigel Williams, Karen Thompson

The purpose of this paper is to understand and identify the nature of evaluation criteria, levels and associations among levels of project success in development projects by NGOs…

Book review

Ralf Müller